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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein: The printing press as an agent of change (1997, Cambridge University Press)

Review of 'The printing press as an agent of change' on 'Goodreads'

back to the 90s, in a good way

People in tech sometimes say we overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. On page after page of this, I kept repeatedly thinking "oh, I've underestimated the impact of the internet on humanity" — because the book does an amazing job showing how much we underestimate the many impacts of the printing press.

(It's also long, and snarky, and yet maybe too short. I can't do it justice in this space.)